Advertising-machine.



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APPLICATION IILED MAR. 19, 1913.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1914.

Application filed March 19, 1912. SeriaI No. 756,822.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK H. NEWTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Advertising-Machine, of whlch the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in advertising machines, and the object of my invention is to provide mechanism for exhibiting advertising cards to the public in rotation at regular intervals automatically, in conjunction with a weather map and indicators of weather conditions. I attain this object by means of the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a view of a portion of the rear elevation with the back removed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line X X Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line X X Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is an enlarged broken view of the chains showing a ortion of the lower wheel. Fig. 6 is an en arged broken view of the chains showing method of catch and release.

My device consists of a case 1 standing on feet 2 having an open front inclosed by the sliding glazed door 3. Behind this door is a sliding door 4 on which is to be secured a U. S. weather map 5. On the top of the casing is the ornamental scroll 6 containing the electric lights 7. The slide 4 extends about two thirds the distance up the casing, and above it are the openings 8, 9, and 10. In the bearings 11 in the brackets at each end of the casing is journaled the shaft 12, and in the bearings 13 is journaled the shaft 14. In similar bearings 15 in the top of the casing is journaled the shaft 16. On one end of the shaft 12 is fixed the gear 17, and above it is the bracket 18 on which is secured the electric motor 19. Below the bracket, journalcd in the hangers 20, is the worm 21 adapted to engage the gear 17. On the end of the worm shaft is fixed the pulley 22 which is connected with the pulley 23 on the motor by the belt 24. On the shaft 12 are fixed the sprocket wheels 25' and 26 and 27; on the shaft 14 are the idler sprocket wheels 28, 29, so, 31, 32, 3s, 34., 35 and 36; and upon the shaft 16 are the idler sprocket wheels 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, and 42. The sprocket chains 43, 44, and 45 connect the sprocket wheels 25 with 29, 26 with 32 and 27 with 35 respectively, and the chains 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51 connect the sprockets 28 with 37, 30 with 38, 31 with 39, 33 with 40,34 with 41, and 36 with 42. On the chains 43, 44 and 45 are fixed the clutches 52, 53 and 54 and on the chains 47, 49 and 51 are fixed, at equidistant points, and predetermined distances apart, the pins 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61 and 62. Between the chains 46 and 47, and 48 and 49, and 50 and 51 are riveted the stay rods 46, and to these rods are removably secured a plurality of advertising sheets on which may be painted advertising matter. Each one of these sheets is approximately the size of the openings 8, 9 and 10. The clutch on the smaller chains at each revolution engages one of the pins on the chain along side until the clutch slips off the pin on its upward movement, thus bringing an advertising card in View in one of the openings 8, 9, or 10 where it remains visible from outside until the short chain makes another revolution and engages another pin and thus carries the advertisement out of sight replacing it with another. The three sets of chains are so adjusted that the clutch mechanism is brought into action at regular intervals thus causing the three sets of advertising cards to change in regular succession. Motion is transmitted to these chains from the motor 9 19 through the pulleys 22 and 23, worm 21 and shaft 12. The electric lights 7 serve to illuminate the front of the case at night, and the weather map has spaces 63 and 64 on which special weather indications may be indicated. Barometrical and thermometrical instruments may be placed in the scrolls 65 and 66.

What I claim as my invention and desire Letters Patent for is 1. In an advertising machine, the combination with a suitable cabinet, 2. pair of doors slidably mounted in the front thereof one of which being provided with a series of openings and the other being glazed, of a pair of parallel shafts suitably journaled in the'sides of said cabinet, a driving shaft between said shafts, parallel thereto and journaled in the sides of said cabinet, a series of pairs of sprocket wheels on each of said pairs of shafts, a series of smaller sprocket wheels on said driving shaft, a series of sprocket wheels on the lower of said shafts, sprocket chains cperably connecting said latter sprocket wheels with the sprocket wheels on said driving shaft, similar chains connecting said pairs of sprocket Wheels, spacing rods connecting said chains clutches on the driving chains adapted to engage once in each revolution thereof the ends of the spacing rods on said pairs of sprockets, said clutches being so arranged that the series of chains Will be operated one at a time, in regular succession, a plurality of advertising cards or signs equally spaced on and secured to said chains, and motor means connected to said driving shaft as described and specified.

2. An advertising machine comprising a cabinet, a pair of sliding doors in the front thereof, one of said doors being glazed and the other being provided with a series of openings for exhibiting advertisements through, in combination with a horizontally disposed idler shaft in the top of said cabinet and a similar shaft in the bottom of said cabinet parallel to said idler shaft, both of said shafts being journaled in suitable bearings in the sides of the cabinet, a series of pairs of sprocket Wheels on said idler shafts, chains opcrably connecting the pairs of sprockets on the upper shaft With those on the lower shaft, a plurality of advertising signs secured to said chains at regular intervals, a driving shaft parallel to and mounted between said idler shafts and suitably jo-urnaled in the sides of the cabinet, small sprocket Wheels on said driving shaft, driving sprocket Wheels on said lower shaft substantially larger than and in line with those on said driving shaft, chains operably connecting the sprockets on the driving shaft with those on the loWer shaft, pins on the chains connecting the upper and lower shafts outwardly projecting therefrom and located at each of said advertising signs, lugs on the driving chains adapted to engage said pins once in each revolution of the driving chains and cause the signs to intermittently move into position opposite the openings in the door, said lugs being so arranged that the signs on the different chains will be exhibited one after the other in regular succession, and means to operate the driving shaft as described and specified.

FRANK H. NEWTON.

Witnesses J. D. HASKIN, M. E. KINNEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. C. 

